Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-07-15
PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY,
MORTIMER WHITEHEAD.

Ihere mas Deen another great coIheI
in wheat. Fortunes have been made
and lost. or course the ''break" came,
rs usual, just as farmers are busy har-
vesting the new crop, and the beats
will rule with low prices until the main
portion of The crop passes out OF the
hands of the producers.
Adam Smith thought wheat was less
liable than other commodity to be mo-
nopolized ny spectators, because "its
owner can never be collected in one
place." But this supposed impossibility
is practically overcome by the railway
and telegraph, and now Boards of Trade
arbitrarily make an3 unmake tho prices
Of food, and wheat is as easily ''cornered (,
as anything else. A single firm in Chi
cago, five years ago, gained control OF
the pork market, more than doubled the
price, and cleared over seven million
dollars on single deal, the influence
of which was felt in every part of the
world. Farmers should think of these
things while busy in the harvest field,
remembering how little "supply and
demand" good or poor crops. has to do
with the price he is to receive. 1t is all
i'm the hands Of gamblers. Organized
farmers will one of these days put stop
to it.
"rhe growth of the spirit of specula-
! ton is ominous. The salaries Of clerks.
the business capital, the bank deposits
and trust funds of all sorts, which dis
appear ION change, indicate how wide
spread is the unhealthy haste 10 be rich.
| And such have the methods Of specula-
ton become that The Exchange has
degenerated into little better than eu
phemism gambling hell While one
! busbel in seven of the wheat crop Of the
United States is received by the Produce
Exchange of New York, its traders buy
and sell two for every one that comes
out of the ground. When tie cotton
plantations of the South yielded less
than 100000 bales the crop on the
New York Cotton Exchange WAS more
than 32,000,000. Pennsylvania does
we'll to run "a 100000 Of barrels ofoil in
year; but New York city will do as
much in two small rooms in one week,
and the Petroleum Exchanges sold al
together last year 100000 barrels"
Henry d. Lloyd,
"The Grange in Oregon has, during
the past year, steadily increased in mum
bers. Three new Oranges have been
organized and nine dormant Oranges
revived. Our business cooperation has
increased and is in healthy condition.
A number of new Grange halls have
been erected and dedicated. Every new
hall is an important acquisition and aid
in our work, for it creates new centre
for general and intellectual culture, and
is a rallyiDg place for the farmers of the
neighborhood. Under our influence,
our agricultural college is being estab-
lished as an institution exclusively de-
voted to the promotion of agricultural
education and the development of prac-
teal farming. Wherever in any COM
munity an active, live Grange has long
existed, better farming is done, fewer
mortgages on the land, more ornamental
trees shade the wayside and adorn the
homesteads, are apparent everywhere
among the people. RI. II. Boise.
Under the title OF "Men who own
themselves" the Kennel Adrdnce Pa.),
says: EARNING may be a laborious and
irksome business and the profits of ag-
riculture discouraging, but there is one
thing which the farmer may possess of
which every man in any other avocation
may well envy him, and that is his alb
solute independence. Men engaged in
trade frequently feel obliged to refrain
from what they consider their duty lest
in its performance they may injure
their business. In Kennett Square the
house to house canvass for signers TO a
remonstrance against the granting of
license to our one hotel developed
number of cases of this kind, and two
or three persons who signed the remon-
STRANGE were subsequently, overcome by
| "a nj hnl 81, ctrin lynn
off, the fear of a boycott proving too
powerful for their sense of duty. The
farmer, however, has nothing of this
kind to fear. He is absolutely his own
master, and neither his religious, moral,
political or social beliefs or disbeliefs
may in any way be used to the injury of
his worldly prospects. He wears no
mans collar. And after all this is more
desirable than riches or place. Ones
manhood is something more to be desired
than something that has to be gained by
constantly "crooking the pregnant
hinges of the knee" or bowling to the
caprice and within of people we may in
our Utmost soul loathe and despise."
"rhe Grange is educating the farmer
how to use this independence not only
for his own good in correcting existing
evils but in helping those who dare not
help themselves for the good of our
country and mankind"
If any one can possibly be held back
on account of the Grange being secret
society, let me say to such that the Sc
crecy of the secret societies, so-called,
in this State, compares with the social,
fraternal and moral objects of those So
cieties as the secret threads in the bind
! inc of your Bible compares with the